The middens of the ancestors slowly empty. The last few usable pieces are found.
Only a generation since KlaPit mine was abandoned, the new mine at Shells is almost empty.
Buried dangers emerge from the bottoms of the pit mines.
Forgotten fears told as campfire tales emerge in their spectral forms.
Rusty worries her life skill is at an end. She has no other interest, than being the dig leader following Zella.
Ambrena feels threatened that her life skill will be less valued as Tanna's daughters grow up. Every mistake is magnified as if it were life threatening.
Corandra fears her ancestors have cursed her. Corandra knows they don't want her. Everything she touches crumbles. The box she found spreads a devastating illness. She abandons her villa for a cure.
Corandra feels abandoned by her older friends, Ambrena and Rusty, as they embrace their life skills. The only person who notices her anymore is her verbal sparring partner, Henry. Or so she thinks.
Will Corandra forgive herself? Will she allow others to forgive her for the damage her ancestors committed? When she has to choose between saving Ambrena and Rusty, or saving Henry, how will she decide? What will that decision mean to the future of the Pit Miners?
Will Ambrena and Rusty find the cure they so desperately seek? Is it even what they think it is? Will the battle in the Grass Sea lead to peace, or the forgotten specter of war?
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